I don’t know if the party is, but they way I see it, unless young people turn out in substantial numbers, it’s going to be very difficult to over come gerrymandering.
I voted as soon as I could, but I’ve always been an outlier of sorts (I was the only liberal among my peers in college e.g. Technically I’m a boomer ('64).) I get why young people don’t vote, politics can be abstract, but lack of participation is really going to negatively impact their lives, far more than ever before. I think some of them are realizing that now (least, I hope so.)
Young people feel they their wants get ignored by the status quo and politicians, which is largely true. But there’s so much they don’t even know exists that they depend upon every day that could disappear if they don’t get involved at least a little.
I think it’s a mistake to overgeneralize that poll and the Harvard population to all of America. They aren’t exactly representative of american youth. They might also be bucketing in the large harvard grad student population (who are far more “adult”, for lack of a better word) with the undergrad vote.
It’s a national poll by Harvard, not just of Harvard students.
Wow, my reading comprehension is excellent!
I also voted as soon as I could, and I started in 1980*. I think I can count the elections I haven’t voted in on one hand–there was some municipal thing a few years ago, I think–that was one.
*of course, I did have a strong interest in political economy from the get go–PoliSci major in college (plus Foreign Languages, but that was sort of a “Major of Opportunity” since I’d grown up bilingual in Spanish and English, and had spent a year in Germany by the time I started college, adding a decent foundation of German to the mix).
Nesrie
4892
One of my first experiences in a national election resulted in hanging chads and going to bed not knowing who the president was. I’ve been jaded from the start.
rei
4893
Has Cheeto Twitler choked on his Big Mac yet?
rowe33
4895
Oh wait, I know the answer to this one…“What is the least populated Republican political group in the US in 2018?”
Menzo
4896
Banzai
4897
Weren’t there so few senate GOP seats up for grabs last election also? Does that mean 2020 is going to be practically all GOP seats?
CraigM
4898
2020 will be the biggest chance to swing the Senate. It looked possible in 2016, there were several decent pick up, but only one really came through.
But 2020 has several more vulnerable GOP seats than Dem seats.
GOP will lose Gardner in Colorado, so there is one.
Another product that wouldn’t exist without the Trump presidency!
kerzain
4903
My family still regularly complains about Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize to this day, so this is just about the greatest headline in the world to them. You have no idea.
SEOUL, South Korea — Several months ago, South Koreans considered President Trump as dangerous as North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, as the two traded threats of nuclear annihilation.
Now, commentators and others in Seoul think Mr. Trump deserves a Nobel Prize for helping start the unexpected peace process unfolding on the divided Korean Peninsula. On Monday, South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in, said he felt the same.
In recent months, Mr. Moon and his senior aides have repeatedly thanked Mr. Trump for making a rapprochement between the Koreas possible. Mr. Trump’s “maximum pressure” approach of tightening the noose around the North with economic sanctions and military threats was largely responsible for forcing Mr. Kim to the negotiating table, they said.
KevinC
4904
I mean, if one were to accept the premise that Trump was instrumental on this (I don’t get how… threatening nukes over Twitter lead to peace or something?) then sure.
Honestly, though, I didn’t think much would top Obama getting the Nobel before doing anything but this would do it.
If there is lasting progress w/ North Korea and you can trace it back to Trump’s mad tweet-bro-mance-frenemy relationship with Kim, then… sure? Why not.
